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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by chrisseaton on Monday June 22, 2020 @08:27AM (#23599423)
> You don't develop cloud software on a mac anyway

You must be living in a different universe. What do you think the tens of thousands of developers at Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc etc etc are doing on their Macintoshes?

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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by danans on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:15AM (#23600404)
> What do you think the tens of thousands of developers at Google ... are doing on their Macintoshes?

I can only speak of my experience at Google, but the Macs used by engineers here are glorified terminals, since the cloud based software is built using tools running on Google's internal Linux workstations and compute clusters. Downloading code directly to a laptop is a security violation (With an exception for those working on iOS, Mac, or Windows software)

If we need Linux on a laptop, there is either the laptop version of the internal Linux distro or Chromebooks with Crostini.

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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by Kye on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:01AM (#23600266)
They individually have a lot of developers, but the long tail is people pushing to AWS/Google Cloud/Azure from boring corporate offices that run a lot of Windows and develop in C#/Java.

edit: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-pr...

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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by bubblethink on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:21PM (#23609323)
>What do you think the tens of thousands of developers at Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc etc etc are doing on their Macintoshes?

SSH to a linux machine ? I get that cloud software is a broad term that includes pretty much everything under the sun. My definition of cloud dev was a little lower level.

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